US Patent Issued to WALGREEN on Dec. 2 for "Machine learning system for irrevocable patient out-of-pocket costs for prescriptions" (Illinois, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,869, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to WALGREEN Co. (Deerfield, Ill.).

"Machine learning system for irrevocable patient out-of-pocket costs for prescriptions" was invented by Ajumobi O. Udechukwu (Lake Forest, Ill.) and Yannik K. Pitcan (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for generating an irrevocable or guaranteed out-of-pocket (OOP) cost for a patient's prescription prior to the patient submitting the prescription for processing and filling by an enterprise include receiving a request for the OOP cost, obtaining current information corresponding to the patient, and determining the irrevocable OOP cost of the ...